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Jazz Unlimited for April 1, 2018 will be “Grammy Winners in My Collection-Part 1.” In it’s early days, the jazz Grammy Awards were not awarded for great music, but by the popularity of the musicians and the Hollywood-Centric voters. Great music began to creep in by the late 1960’s. We will play selections from the 80 Grammy winning jazz recordings in my collection from 1959 to the present. In all of the Jazz Grammys, there is no Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue,” John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme,” Dave Brubeck’s “Time Out,” not one Blue Note label or Prestige label 1960’s jazz classi

The Jazz Unlimited show for January 13 is part of a series on listening to musicians who were born or nurtured in specific urban centers. This is the second of two parts on Detroit and its environs. On tonight's show the featured musicians include pianists Johnny O'Neal, Ross Tompkins, Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones, Carlos McKinney and Geri Allen, trumpeter and composer/arranger Thad Jones, saxophonists, Wardell Gray, Billy Mitchell, Pepper Adams and Hal Russell, drummers Louis Hayes, Alvester Garnett, Elvin Jones and Roy Brooks, violinist Regina Carter, bassists Ron Carter, Paul Chambers an

Jazz Unlimited for Sunday, October 21, 2018 will present “The Career of Kenny Barron.” Born in Philadelphia in 1943, this jazz piano master began his recording career in 1960 at the age of 17 with recordings with Yusef Lateef and his brother tenor saxophonist Bill Barron. To date, Kenny Barron has 564 recording sessions to his credit with 54 as a leader. He had a five-year stints with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz and recorded with just about everyone who is anyone in jazz. In addition to work on his own projects, tonight’s show presents Kenny Barron with Regina Carter, Kevin Mahogany,

Jazz Unlimited for October 15, 2017 will be “The Thelonious Monk Centennial.” In his lifetime, Thelonious Monk composed just over 70 tunes. Monk’s little gems are the second most recorded compositions in all of jazz history. Monk would have been 100 years old on October 10. We will play his music performed by him on solo piano, small groups and big bands and by Ray Anderson, Carmen McRae, Scott Amendola, the Monk’s Music Trio, Abbey Lincoln, Irene Schweizer, Coleman Hawkins, Organ Monk, Fred Hersch, John Coltrane, Andy Bey, Kenny Barron & Regina Carter, Danilo Perez, Steve

Jazz Unlimited for March 13, 2016 will be “Jazz Families-Blood Relatives-Part 5.” This last program on the genetics of jazz will feature music by the Joe and Walter “Foots” Thomas, the New Orleans Humphrey, Joseph, Batiste, Barker, Barbarin, and Jordan families, George E. and Julia Lee, the Hall Brothers, Nicholas Payton and his father Walter, the Sims brothers, St. Louis’s Silverman brothers, the Freemans of Chicago, Oscar Pettiford and his brother Alonzo, Ingrid and Christine Jensen, and Alice Coltrane and her half brother, Ernie Farrow.

Jazz Unlimited for Sunday, April 13 will be “Women in Current Jazz.” While there have been many female jazz vocalists, instrumentalists are harder to find. As times change, women have become heard in jazz playing all sorts of instruments, not just pianos and guitars. This show will feature female jazz artists who have been active since 2000, with three vocal recordings and 26 instrumental recordings. The female jazz artists featured on tonight’s show are organist Akiko Tsuraga; pianists Bertha Hope, Geri Allen, Hiromi Renee Rosnes, Shamie Royston and Kris Davis; composer, arranger and b